China Holding US Woman for 'National Security' Reasons - Wall Street Journal

BEIJING—Chinese authorities confirmed on Tuesday that they are holding and investigating a U.S. citizen on suspicion of endangering national security, in the government’s first public comments on her six-month detention.

Phan Phan-Gillis, a 55-year-old Houston-based businesswoman of Chinese descent, was taken into custody while traveling in the southern coastal city of Zhuhai in March before being transferred to the inland city of Nanning for investigation into allegations of spying and stealing state secrets, her...

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